I'm thinking of rspec in particular, as it's the framework I write most tests in. It's trivial to include the loop variable in the string interpolation that describes the "context" block for the loop inner test setup. But usually I wouldn't be using a plain loop, I'd be iterating over entries from a hash map.

The same thing in something like junit is less workable, and copy and paste becomes more viable simply because the language is so clumsy and inexpressive. I've seen various extensions and annotations that let you parameterize junit tests but I don't think they make things much clearer.

A key benefit of driving the test cases off a table of inputs to outputs is that missing cases in cross products are much easier to spot. Visualising the state space and its coverage is easier when you can see a map of the covered space in one block of code.